Triple

T9194471
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tony Buddenbrook E220668 entity
Predicate hasMother P1909 FINISHED
Object Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Elisabeth Buddenbrook is a character in Thomas Mann's novel "Buddenbrooks," depicted as the matriarch of the Buddenbrook family and mother of Tony Buddenbrook.
 E790164 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Elisabeth Buddenbrook | Statement: [Tony Buddenbrook, hasMother, Elisabeth Buddenbrook]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Context triple: [Tony Buddenbrook, hasMother, Elisabeth Buddenbrook]
  • A. Ottilie von Pogwisch
    Ottilie von Pogwisch was a German noblewoman best known as the wife of August von Goethe and daughter-in-law of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  • B. Johann Buddenbrook (senior)
    Johann Buddenbrook (senior) is a fictional 18th-century merchant patriarch in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the founding generation of the Buddenbrook family’s commercial dynasty.
  • C. Ottilie Einhorn
    Ottilie Einhorn is known as one of the children of American hedge fund manager and Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn.
  • D. Christian Buddenbrook
    Christian Buddenbrook is a key member of the merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," known for his eccentric, hypochondriacal nature and inability to conform to bourgeois expectations.
  • E. Elisabeth Schultze
    Elisabeth Schultze was the daughter of Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, who is primarily known as the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Triple: [Tony Buddenbrook, hasMother, Elisabeth Buddenbrook]
Generated description
Elisabeth Buddenbrook is a character in Thomas Mann's novel "Buddenbrooks," depicted as the matriarch of the Buddenbrook family and mother of Tony Buddenbrook.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Target entity description: Elisabeth Buddenbrook is a character in Thomas Mann's novel "Buddenbrooks," depicted as the matriarch of the Buddenbrook family and mother of Tony Buddenbrook.
  • A. Ottilie von Pogwisch
    Ottilie von Pogwisch was a German noblewoman best known as the wife of August von Goethe and daughter-in-law of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  • B. Johann Buddenbrook (senior)
    Johann Buddenbrook (senior) is a fictional 18th-century merchant patriarch in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the founding generation of the Buddenbrook family’s commercial dynasty.
  • C. Ottilie Einhorn
    Ottilie Einhorn is known as one of the children of American hedge fund manager and Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn.
  • D. Christian Buddenbrook
    Christian Buddenbrook is a key member of the merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," known for his eccentric, hypochondriacal nature and inability to conform to bourgeois expectations.
  • E. Elisabeth Schultze
    Elisabeth Schultze was the daughter of Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, who is primarily known as the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ca83e7ba70819088b74866d9da2c30 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccd5c3614c81909e26417e00fdfa11 completed April 1, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0b1adc2508190b8a24510ee61f092 completed April 4, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0b2b9fbf4819083e594d676323c65 completed April 4, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0b343a040819098620e2e3c451b39 completed April 4, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:25 p.m.